Chapter 195: Magic City Starts

The Shanghai Hongqiao Integrated Transportation Hub Project is a world-class modern large-scale integrated transportation hub.

It closely connects high-speed rail, intercity rail, subway, bus, taxi and airport. After arriving in Shanghai, passengers can choose the transfer method they want in one stop without spending extra time.

The transportation modes it brings together are unprecedented in the world, both in terms of quantity and scale.

However, this kind of modern transportation hub project currently only exists in the planning of the Magic City Government.

It was only in July last year that Shanghai Shenhong Investment Development Co., Ltd. was formally established to be responsible for the development and construction of the Hongqiao Comprehensive Transportation Hub.

According to the planning objectives of the Shanghai Municipal Government, the main construction of the hub was fully started at the end of 2006 and completed at the end of 2009. It will be officially put into use before the Shanghai World Expo in 2010.

Wang Hao and his team naturally couldn't wait for this kind of progress.

In the script of "Source Code", the train where the story takes place departs from the Hongqiao Comprehensive Transportation Hub in this Magic City and heads all the way to Shangjing.

So at the beginning of the movie, Wang Hao designed a long shot that included the Shanghai Hongqiao Comprehensive Transportation Hub.

However, the place has not been built yet, and Wang Hao and his team cannot wait 10 years to shoot, so what should they do? Naturally, they resorted to special effects modeling technology.

As early as when Wang Hao was filming "Fatal Call", he used this technology to bring the "three-piece set" of Shanghai that was originally supposed to appear many years later to the big screen in advance. Now he is just repeating the old trick.

Of course, engineering drawings of this level, even the external structure, are not something that Wang Hao and his team can get just by asking.

Fortunately, the movie "Source Code" was invested by Magic Shadow Group. At the same time, when they filmed "Fatal Call" last time, they also dealt with local departments in Shanghai, so the two sides were able to communicate in a friendly manner.

When Wang Hao and others explained their intentions in detail and showed the pre-designed pre-shot animation to the leaders of relevant departments, these leaders of the Magic City were also very interested.

Unlike leaders in small places, Shanghai is an international metropolis. Leaders here are not only highly educated, but also have good vision. They naturally saw the benefits of Wang Hao using the Hongqiao Integrated Transportation Hub project to shoot a movie.

At the very least, this is an advance promotion for the Magic City's city card, and I heard that Director Wang's movies can be sold abroad, which makes it even more of a publicity-related political achievement.

Therefore, the relevant departments in Shanghai were very enthusiastic and immediately issued instructions to the company responsible for the construction of the hub project, asking it to fully cooperate with Wang Hao and others in the filming work.

Soon, a unique launch conference was held at the gate of the Hongqiao Integrated Transportation Hub project construction site.

The media reporters present were quite surprised that the launch conference was held at the entrance of the construction site. After all, no one had ever done this before.

But they don't care about these. Compared with the issue of the press conference venue, the new movie by the young director Wang Hao is their focus.

The process of the press conference was also very simple. After the emcee finished his opening remarks, the local leaders of Shanghai naturally gave an impassioned speech, introducing the advantages and characteristics of Shanghai, elaborating on the important value of the Hongqiao Comprehensive Transportation Hub Project, and then expressing Shanghai's support for the entertainment and cultural industries.

After these three moves, it was finally the turn of Wang Hao and others to introduce the general situation of the new movie "Source Code", and also let the leading actors of the movie show up in front of the media reporters.

After all these processes are completed, it will be the turn for reporters to ask questions.

At this time, most of the microphones used for interviews were handed to director Wang Hao and female lead Song Huiqiao.

This is quite normal. After all, the cast of Source Code is not that outstanding in the eyes of outsiders. Although Yu Bo, the lead actor, has starred in the popular Water Moon Cave, it was just a TV series, and Yu Bo himself is not famous for his acting. The only person in the crew who is a bit of a hot topic is Song Huiqiao, and that's because she has foreign friends. Otherwise, as a TV star, she would not be worth mentioning in the Chinese film industry.

"Director Wang! Director Wang! How much investment did you make in this new movie?" A reporter arranged by the company in advance was the first to shout out.

"Fifty million!"

Wang Hao reported a slightly exaggerated number.

Because it did not use big-name stars, the cost of remuneration for the cast of "Source Code" was actually not that high. Most of the money was spent on special effects. Together with Wang Hao's director's fee of tens of millions, the budget cost of the entire film was actually only more than 30 million.

Of course, the actual situation is the actual situation, and we still have to exaggerate it when reporting it.

"Director Wang! Director Wang! May I ask why you chose Song Huiqiao as the female lead?" This should be someone hired by Song Huiqiao's agency.

"Because Miss Song Huiqiao is very beautiful!"

Wang Hao understood publicity, and he answered with a smile that could easily lead to speculation.

"In this movie, there are some emotional scenes between the male and female protagonists, so I chose Miss Song Huiqiao because her presence will make this kind of emotion very reasonable."

boom!
The reporters at the scene were excited by Wang Hao's answer.

In fact, they don’t care about movies or anything like that. What these reporters want is big news and popularity.

Wang Hao's answer gave them room to play. Some reporters even wrote in their notebooks: "Well-known director Wang Hao said Song Huiqiao is his ideal type."

Surrounding this topic, the heat of the press conference was instantly snatched away by Wang Hao.

"Director Wang! Director Wang! May I ask if you have a crush on Miss Song Huiqiao?"

"Director Wang! Director Wang! I heard that you flew to Korea specifically to invite Miss Song Huiqiao to play the leading role in the movie. Is this news true?"

"Director Wang! Director Wang..."

Wang Hao pressed his hand downwards. "Today is the launch conference for Source Code. I will not answer irrelevant questions."

Why don't you answer what you just said?
The reporters secretly complained, but they had no choice but to follow his advice and asked questions about the movie, while passing the microphone to other actors.

The press conference ended with a bang. After the meeting, the reporters were busy compiling today's interview content into manuscripts, while Wang Hao led the crew to start filming.

In fact, no actors are needed for the filming in Shanghai. The most important thing is the on-site shooting work of the Hongqiao Integrated Transportation Hub. The on-site information obtained will be used in special effects modeling later.

To shoot this, another new photography technology called drone aerial photography comes into play.

(End of this chapter)

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